White grew up in
North Texas where his father published weekly newspapers in small towns in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, primarily
Arlington and
Mansfield. He graduated from
Cleburne High School in 1971, then attended
Tarrant County Junior College in
Fort Worth until 1972. White began creating and self-publishing comics in the 1980s.He was a contributor to the literary free magazine The Black Dog published in Austin, Texas in the late eighties. in 2012, he played the lead role in the short film
A Second Coming. White's early stories were bizarre, darkly humorous, and dealt with metaphysical themes. The
Baltimore City Paper described his work as combining "an illustrative style reminiscent of serial adventure comic strips with the paranoia of
Robert Anton Wilson's
The Illuminatus! Trilogy." Later, his work became more political, the best known examples being "Dead Silence in the Brain: The
CIA Assassination of
John Lennon" (
The Comics Journal Summer Special 2001); "
Operation Northwoods" (
The Comics Journal Winter Special 2002); "1963," an autobiographical account of growing up in the
Dallas area during the
Kennedy assassination, White has also worked in the
Western genre, one example being his story "Trouble in Tascosa," which appeared in
Hotwire 2 (Fantagraphics, 2008). In 2011, White collaborated with author
Mike Kearby on
Texas Tales Illustrated: The Revolution, a graphic novel about the Texas Revolution (
Texas Christian University Press). In 2015, White and Kearby published a second volume of
Texas Tales Illustrated: The Trail Drives. ==Awards==